01684cam a2200265 4500 489747153 TxAuBib 20210319120000.0 201214s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9789774169946 PAP 29.95 9774169948 PAP 29.95 TxAuBib Thompson, Jason, 1950- Wonderful things [BOOK] : a history of Egyptology: 2, the Golden Age: 1881-1914 / Janos Thompson. Golden Age: 1881-1914. 1st pb ed. Cairo : American University in Cairo Press, 2020. xiv, 374 pages : maps ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references ans index. The Golden Age -- Akhenaten Lives! -- The Seven Hathors -- New Horizons -- Greco-Roman Egypt -- Loret's Interlude -- The Return of Maspero -- New Players in the Game -- The Berlin School and Its Rivals -- Egyptology Comes to America -- The United States Enters the Field -- Attention Turns South -- The Twilight of the Golden Age. aThe discovery of ancient Egypt and the development of Egyptology are momentous events in intellectual and cultural history. The history of Egyptology is the story of the people, famous and obscure, who constructed the picture of ancient Egypt that we have today, recovered the Egyptian past while inventing it anew, and made a lost civilization comprehensible to generations of enchanted readers and viewers thousands of years later. 20210319. Egyptology History. Egypt Antiquities.